127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts

[Liam Proven]

On 29 November 2017 at 22:11, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> In 2005, AFAIR, Thomas Hood proposed an nss module that would resolve
> the system's hostname to 127.0.1.1 so as not to have an entry for it
> in "/etc/hosts" (which is exactly what Lennart's "nss-myhostname" -
> called "libnss-myhostname" in Debian and Ubuntu - does, but with
> 127.0.0.2). There was pushback so he proposed adding a "127.0.1.1
> system_hostname" line to "/etc/hosts". This was accepted and it became
> the Debian and Ubuntu default.

Interesting. News to me.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/754213/what-is-difference-between-localhost-address-127-0-0-1-and-127-0-1-1


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